In honor of Banned Books Week, we are sharing some reflections from one of our team members. Though not exactly…
Pirate Week: Treasure Island.
As much as some of us around here at Fictional Almanac think of The Goonies as their go-to pirate story…
Talk like a Pirate Day (Sept 19).
Today is the day when we celebrate the dialect that we all have heaaarrrrrrty feelings about–Talk Like a Pirate Day!…
Pirate Week: Pirates of Penzance.
This delightful musical follows Frederic, a pirate apprentice, who is released from his apprenticeship and promptly falls in love with…
Pirate Week: The Goonies
In honor of Pirate week (which includes Talk-Like-A-Pirate Day on September 19), we’re featuring stories about pirates to get you…
On Deck: Pirate Week
Tighten your eye patches and polish your wooden legs–next week we be setting sail for Pirate Week. As we’re sure…
Tally and Shay’s 16th Birthday (Sept 9)
Tally and Shay became friends shortly before their 16th birthdays (on Sept 9th) when they were supposed to have mandatory…
The stock of d’Anconia Copper crashes. (Sept 3)
Francisco d’Anconia causes a number of fires and cave-ins to his own copper mines, deliberately crushing the wealth of his…
Harry Potter takes his son to Platform 9 ¾ (1 Sept 2017)
In the final book in the Harry Potter series, we are flashed forward 19 years to the day that we…
Judgment Day (August 29, 1997)
Happy anniversary of when the machines tried to wipe out humanity. Or in the words of John Connor: “On August…
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